Gila Wilderness

Area Status: Open

!!!ADVISORY!!!

A large portion of the Gila Wilderness has been closed due to the Whitewater/Baldy Fire Complex. If you plan on recreating in open portions of the Gila Wilderness, please use extreme caution. See map for closure area.

The 558,065-acre Gila Wilderness, created in June 1924 at the urging of the great conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold, was the world's first designated wilderness